Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLISYou’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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